Coulter, Behar Spar Over Palin

Behar tells her to 'stop it'

(NEWSER) - Conservative screed scribe Ann Coulter insisted yesterday that every presidential assassin in history has been a liberal. "They're all liberals—assassin by assassin by assassin," she spilled on CNN's Joy Behar Show. An angry Behar retorted: "Wait a minute. Don't make that jump from murder, terrorist to liberals. That is an outrageous statement. They're not liberals, Ann. They're murderers, terrorists. Stop it." More»

'I won't back off,' she vows

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin yesterday vehemently reiterated her controversial criticism of "death panels" that she is convinced are part of health reform, reports Huffington Post . "If we have our health care paid for by the bureaucracy, depending on our health condition, depending on our age, we're going to be subject to bureaucrats deciding, in panels and commissions—just like they do overseas—who will be worthy of receiving the health care that government is going to provide," Palin says in the first of a two-part interview with Sean Hannity. More»

Abortion mindset could be applied to elderly and disabled, she says

(NEWSER) - She didn't use the term "death panel," but Sarah Palin kept up her criticism of "rationed" care for the elderly and disabled last night. In a speech to abortion opponents, Palin warned that the same philosophy that allows abortions could be applied to those two groups with dangerous consequences. Especially, she said, if health care reform puts a "panel of bureaucrats" in charge, reports Politico . More»

Show often presents conservative viewpoint as inevitable

(NEWSER) - 30 Rock will wrap its third season next week, with a ratings boost propelled by creator Tina Fey’s notorious Saturday Night Live impersonations of Sarah Palin. Yet for a show that owes some of its success to the takedown of a Republican politician, 30 Rock often sides with its inner conservative, writes Jonah Weiner for Slate. More»

(NEWSER) - Rush Limbaugh today complained on his radio show that Democrats have morphed into "liberal socialists" and "must be stopped." That was the routine part. But he then "pushed the envelope," writes Sam Stein in the Huffington Post, with a rant that linked liberal ideas to murderers, rapists, and "this Muslim guy" who beheaded his wife near Buffalo. More»